The urgent need to move to a cleaner economy and electrify transport has created a skills gap and increasing demand for highly skilled engineers with expertise in this critical area. This MSc will equip you with the multidisciplinary skills to help fill this gap. You will develop the expertise to tackle pressing manufacturing, scientific, engineering, and commercial challenges.
On this course, you will build specialist skills in developing batteries, fuel cells, and electric machines on an industrial scale. You will also test and apply your knowledge in an interdisciplinary design project and research project, which will be undertaken alongside PhD and post-doctoral researchers in our world-leading laboratories. Based at our UCL East campus, you will have access to shared labs and workshops that facilitate collaboration. You will join a thriving and growing community of researchers, with close ties to industrial research and networks.
You will also have the opportunity to specialise in one of three routes – materials, electrochemical power sources, or systems – depending on your area of interest.
Given the industrial focus of this course, our graduates are likely to be in high demand due to their breadth of expertise, numerical ability, and problem-solving skills.
This degree will set you up for a career in sustainability, working on batteries, fuel cells, and electrical machines. You could go onto work in UK-based start-ups, SMEs and large companies involved in the sector, as well as international automotive and energy companies. You will also be well equipped to go on to doctoral research.
On the Electrochemical Propulsion Engineering MSc, you will gain in-depth knowledge of the fundamental science and engineering which governs the development of electrochemical and electric propulsion technologies. You will also learn how to apply this knowledge to solve real-world problems, considering the advantages and disadvantages of materials, devices, and approaches to solve open-ended problems.
Graduates from our department have gone on to roles in sectors such as energy, natural resources and the environment, manufacturing, and further academic research. This includes roles in companies such as ExxonMobil, Petronas, and AECOM ( Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts ).
This course offers you the following benefits and opportunities: